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Nikita Simonyan
Nikita Pavlovich Simonyan ( hy, Նիկիտա Մկրտիչ Սիմոնյան, born ''Mkrtych Pogosovich Simonyan'', 12 October 1926) is a former Soviet football striker and coach of Armenian descent. He was born in Armavir. As of 2021 he was the Russian football functionary First Vice-President of the Russian Football Union. Simonyan was awarded the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR title in 1954, the Honored Coach of Russia title in 1968, the Merited Coach of the USSR title in 1970 and the Commander of the Order "For Services to the Fatherland" award in 2011. Simonyan is the top scorer in the history of the club Spartak Moscow at 160 goals. Club career Simonyan was a player for FC Dinamo Sukhumi during his youth career. After sixteen years of living in Sokhumi, Simonyan moved to Moscow, where he joined the local club FC Krylya Sovetov Moscow, also known as the "Wings of the Soviets". Gorokhov became Simonyan's first coach in Moscow. After Krylya Sovetov Moscow came in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armavir, Russia
Armavir (russian: Армави́р) is a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the left bank of the Kuban River. Population: As of 2020, the city has a population of 188,960, while the agglomeration has a population of 207,570. Armavir was formerly the second-largest industrial center of Krasnodar Krai, after Krasnodar. History The area of today's Armavir was first inhabited by Abazins. Later Turkic Tatars from the Crimean Khanate also settled here. As a result of the Caucasian War the remaining Abazins were forced to emigrate from Southern Russia to the Ottoman Empire. Armavir is also a part of the historical land of the Circassians. The contemporary settlement was founded in 1839 by Cherkesogai Armenians as Armyansky aul (). It has been known by its current name since 1848, when it was named after the Armavir, one of the historical capitals of ancient Armenia. The city was the administrative center of the Labinsky Otdel of the Kuban Oblast. During the Russian Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armenia
Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ''Oxford Reference Online'' also place Armenia in Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region; and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, the Lachin corridor (under a Russian peacekeeping force) and Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan to the south. Yerevan is the capital, largest city and the financial center. Armenia is a unitary, multi-party, democratic nation-state with an ancient cultural heritage. The first Armenian state of Urartu was established in 860 BC, and by the 6th century BC it was replaced by the Satrapy of Armenia. The Kingdom of Armenia reached its height under Tigranes the Great in the 1st century BC and in the year 301 became the first state in the world to adopt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1973 Soviet Top League
Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1973 season. Overview It was contested by 16 teams, and Ararat Yerevan won the championship. League standings Results Results in brackets indicate the results from penalty shoot-outs whenever games were drawn. Top scorers ;18 goals * Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv) ;16 goals * Anatoli Kozhemyakin (Dynamo Moscow) ;13 goals * Arkady Andreasyan (Ararat) ;12 goals * Berador Abduraimov (Pakhtakor) * Aleksandr Piskaryov (Spartak Moscow) ;11 goals * Mikhail Bulgakov (Spartak Moscow) * Givi Nodia (Dinamo Tbilisi) ;10 goals * Eduard Markarov (Ararat) * Vitali Starukhin (Shakhtar) ;9 goals * Vladimir Dorofeyev (CSKA) * Viktor Kuznetsov (Zorya) ReferencesSoviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF) {{1973–74 in European football (UEFA) 1969 1 Soviet Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 Soviet Top League
20 teams took part in the league with FC Spartak Moscow winning the championship. Round 1 Group A Table Results Group B Table Results Round 2 Places 1–14 Table Results Top scorers ;16 goals * Dzhemal Kherhadze (Torpedo Kutaisi) * Nikolai Osyanin (Spartak Moscow) * Vladimir Proskurin (SKA Rostov-on-Don) ;12 goals * Galimzyan Khusainov (Spartak Moscow) ;11 goals * Ruslan Abdullayev (Neftchi) ;10 goals * Givi Nodia (Dinamo Tbilisi) ;9 goals * Yuri Avrutskiy (Dynamo Moscow) * Anatoli Shakun (Zorya) * Yuri Semin (Dynamo Moscow) ;8 goals * Vitaly Khmelnitsky (Dynamo Kyiv) * Vladimir Larin (Dynamo Moscow) * Valeri Maslov (Dynamo Moscow) * David Pais (Torpedo Moscow) * Anatoliy Puzach (Dynamo Kyiv) * Viktor Serebryannikov (Dynamo Kyiv) Places 15–20 Table Results Top scorers ;14 goals * Oganes Zanazanyan (Ararat) ;13 goals * Boris Kazakov (Krylia Sovetov) ;9 goals * Nikolai Kazaryan (Ararat) ;8 goals * Rudolf Atamalyan (Lokomotiv Moscow) * Vyacheslav Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pelé
Edson Arantes do Nascimento (; born 23 October 1940), known as Pelé (), is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a forward. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time and labelled "the greatest" by FIFA, he was among the most successful and popular sports figures of the 20th century. In 1999, he was named Athlete of the Century by the International Olympic Committee and was included in the ''Time'' list of the 100 most important people of the 20th century. In 2000, Pelé was voted World Player of the Century by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) and was one of the two joint winners of the FIFA Player of the Century. His 1,279 goals in 1,363 games, which includes friendlies, is recognised as a Guinness World Record. Pelé began playing for Santos at age 15 and the Brazil national team at 16. During his international career, he won three FIFA World Cups: 1958, 1962 and 1970, the only player to do so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Netto
Igor Aleksandrovich Netto (russian: Игорь Александрович Нетто; 9 January 1930 – 30 March 1999) was a Soviet footballer, considered one of the greatest Soviet players ever. He started out playing on the left of defense but, due to his offensive mentality, dribbling and technical abilities turned into a dynamic central midfielder. His versatility and footballing intelligence allowed him to play a number of positions across defense and midfield. Ice hockey and club career Besides football, Netto played 22 games in the 1948–49 and 1950–51 seasons as an ice hockey forward for Spartak. He quit because of the high level of traumatize intrinsic to hockey. During his club career he played for FC Spartak Moscow from 1949 until 1966, scoring 37 goals in 367 league games, winning five Soviet championships and three cups. International career He was the captain of the USSR national football team from 1952 to 1965. He led the country to the gold medal in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 FIFA World Cup
The 1958 FIFA World Cup was the sixth FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams, and was played in Sweden from 8 to 29 June 1958. It was the first FIFA World Cup to be played in a Nordic country. Brazil beat Sweden 5–2 in the final in the Stockholm suburb of Solna to claim their first title. The tournament also marked the arrival of a then 17-year-old Pelé on the world stage. This was the first appearance of Wales at the FIFA World Cup and they would not qualify for another until 64 years later. There were also debut appearances for Northern Ireland and the Soviet Union. Host selection Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Sweden expressed interest in hosting the tournament. Swedish delegates lobbied other countries at the FIFA Congress held in Rio de Janeiro around the opening of the 1950 World Cup finals.Norlin, pp. 24–25 Sweden was awarded the 1958 tournament unopposed on 23 June 1950. Qualification The hosts (Sweden) and the def ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football At The 1956 Summer Olympics
The association football tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics was won by the Soviet Union. Background Following five withdrawals, the tournament featured three Eastern bloc teams and four from Asia. The other sides included in the draw were the United States, the United Team of Germany (which was ''de facto'' West Germany), Great Britain and the hosts Australia, competing in their first Olympic football tournament. The tendency of Eastern bloc countries to provide state-funding for their athletes put Western amateurs at a significant disadvantage. As a result, all Olympic football tournaments 1952 onwards were dominated by the Soviet Union and its satellites. Venues Final tournament First round Five of the sixteen qualified teams withdrew before the final draw: (who boycotted the Games to protest the reception of Taiwan), (who boycotted the Games to protest the Israeli, British and French invasion), , , and the recent World Cup runners-up , a nation that was cheere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1952 Soviet Top League ...
14 teams took part in the league with FC Spartak Moscow winning the championship. League standings Results Top scorers ;11 goals * Andrei Zazroyev (Dynamo Kiev) ;8 goals * Vladimir Ilyin (Dynamo Moscow) * Aleksei Paramonov (Spartak Moscow) ;7 goals * Avtandil Chkuaseli (Dinamo Tbilisi) ;5 goals * Vladimir Bogdanovich (Dynamo Kiev) * Yuri Fetiskin (Kalinin) * Vasili Fomin (Dynamo Leningrad) * Aleksandr Ivanov (Zenit Leningrad) * Aleksei Kolobov (Dynamo Leningrad) * Nikita Simonyan (Spartak Moscow) * Vladimir Tsvetkov (Dynamo Leningrad) References Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF) {{1952–53 in European football (UEFA) 1952 1 Soviet Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1949 Soviet Top League
Following are the results of the 1949 Soviet Top League football championship. Standings Results Top scorers ;26 goals * Nikita Simonyan (Spartak Moscow) ;23 goals * Ivan Konov (Dynamo Moscow) * Aleksandr Ponomarev (Torpedo Moscow) ;20 goals * Konstantin Beskov (Dynamo Moscow) ;19 goals * Andrei Zazroyev (Dinamo Tbilisi) ;18 goals * Grigory Fedotov (CDKA Moscow) ;17 goals * Vladimir Savdunin (Dynamo Moscow) ;16 goals * Viktor Terentyev (Spartak Moscow) ;15 goals * Aleksei Grinin (CDKA Moscow) * Vasili Lotkov (Dynamo Leningrad) * Aleksei Paramonov (Spartak Moscow) References Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF) {{1949–50 in European football (UEFA) Soviet Top League seasons, 1949 1949 in Soviet football leagues, 1 1948–49 in European association football leagues, Soviet 1949–50 in European association football leagues, Soviet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1948 Soviet Top League
14 teams took part in the league with CSKA Moscow winning the championship. League standings Results Top scorers ;25 goals * Sergei Solovyov (Dynamo Moscow) ;23 goals * Vsevolod Bobrov (CDKA Moscow) ;19 goals * Aleksandr Ponomarev (Torpedo Moscow) ;16 goals * Aleksandr Obotov (Lokomotiv Moscow) ;15 goals * Ivan Konov (Spartak Moscow) ;14 goals * Vladimir Dyomin (CDKA Moscow) ;13 goals * Grigory Fedotov (CDKA Moscow) ;11 goals * Konstantin Beskov (Dynamo Moscow) * Boris Chuchelov (Spartak Moscow) * Gaioz Jejelava (Dinamo Tbilisi) * Aleksei Grinin (CDKA Moscow) * Boris Tsybin (Dynamo Leningrad) References Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF) {{1948–49 in European football (UEFA) 1948 Soviet Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ... 1 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sukhumi
Sukhumi (russian: Суху́м(и), ) or Sokhumi ( ka, სოხუმი, ), also known by its Abkhaz name Aqwa ( ab, Аҟәа, ''Aqwa''), is a city in a wide bay on the Black Sea's eastern coast. It is both the capital and largest city of the Republic of Abkhazia, which has controlled it since the Abkhazia war in 1992–93. However, internationally Abkhazia is considered part of Georgia. The city, which has an airport, is a port, major rail junction and a holiday resort because of its beaches, sanatoriums, mineral-water spas and semitropical climate. It is also a member of the International Black Sea Club. Sukhumi's history can be traced to the 6th century BC, when it was settled by Greeks, who named it Dioscurias. During this time and the subsequent Roman period, much of the city disappeared under the Black Sea. The city was named Tskhumi when it became part of the Kingdom of Abkhazia and then the Kingdom of Georgia. Contested by local princes, it became part of the Otto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
